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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Women wrote the first computer algorithm and the first programming language to use English words. But as time has passed, that excuse has rung less true.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. In this cat-and-mouse game, some computer scientists are working to make AI writers more humanlike, while others are working to improve detection tools. Academic fields make progress in this way.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At a public university such as Kansas State University, where I am employed, budget and salary information is public, and understanding about budget decisions and functions is important to our constituents and communities. There is definitely not as much “wiggle room” as you would think in the materials budget!

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Teaching AI writing in terms of co-authorship (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The next-level artificial intelligence capabilities of ChatGPT, a chat bot released in late November by the research company OpenAI, have inspired many predictions, both drastic and ecstatic, for the end of essay writing, if not education as we know it. Whether we like it or not, HAL 9000 has transferred to our campus this spring semester.

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ChatGPT: Post-ASU+GSV Reflections on Generative AI

eLiterate

Generative AI is at least as revolutionary as the graphical user interface, the personal computer, the touch screen, or even the internet. The technology doesn’t need to (and shouldn’t) produce a perfect, finished draft with zero human supervision. And I don’t treat it like a magic information answer machine.

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Should I Disclose Learning Differences on the College Application

Great College Advice

Learning Disabilities and College Success Should a student with a learning disability share that information on the college application? Should students disclose this information or keep the diagnosis private? This is a tough call. In some ways, a learning difference is a sort of “secret identity” that might best be kept secret.

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Is HyFlex a viable teaching approach in 'normal' times?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Joining for the discussion were two professors who have both taught in the HyFlex format and done research on its impact. Enilda Romero-Hall is an associate professor in the learning design and technology program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; she started teaching HyFlex before the pandemic and got her Ph.D.